{"id":12599,"date":"2025-07-24T08:25:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T08:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/?p=12599"},"modified":"2025-07-24T08:25:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T08:25:49","slug":"passageworks-ari-sitas-genre-busting-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/2025\/07\/24\/passageworks-ari-sitas-genre-busting-book","title":{"rendered":"PASSAGEWORKS Ari Sitas\u2019 genre-busting \u201cbook\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Africa Open Institute <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In association with Prof Lou-Marie Kruger, Helene Van Aswegen of the Book Workshop &amp; UNISA Press\u2019s Flame Series <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Invites you to the launch of<\/p>\n<p><strong>PASSAGEWORKS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ari Sitas\u2019 genre-busting \u201cbook\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is to be launched by William Kentridge and Sarah Mosoetsa at Welgevallen Community Psychology Clinic, Suidwal Street, Stellenbosch on 6 August 2025 19:00.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Contributions by Andries Bezuidenhoudt (sound &amp; visuals), Coral Bijoux (installation performance) Karen Press (ideas and more), Sumangala Damodaran (on screen to augment its ragas) &amp; of course Helene Van Aswegen (whose hands wove the magic)<\/p>\n<p>What is <em>Passageworks<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>It is a singular book. Anti-Gutenberg: It is one copy!<\/p>\n<p>It is an artbook.<\/p>\n<p>It will be free for all.<\/p>\n<p>It is (for political reasons) a fictional journey.<\/p>\n<p>It is an archive of a Southern emergence.<\/p>\n<p>It is an echo of Benjamin\u2019s <em>Passagen-Werk.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is about dealing with the Ghosts of the Past.<\/p>\n<p>It is a musical constellation.<\/p>\n<p>It is about a future Humanitude.<\/p>\n<p>It is an exhale from the frail lungs of the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanus Muller (AOI) and Lou-Marie Kruger (Welgevallen)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/files\/2025\/07\/Passageworks-Book-Launch-1.pdf\">https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/files\/2025\/07\/Passageworks-Book-Launch-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Africa Open Institute In association with Prof Lou-Marie Kruger, Helene Van Aswegen of the Book Workshop &amp; UNISA Press\u2019s Flame Series Invites you to the launch of PASSAGEWORKS Ari Sitas\u2019 genre-busting \u201cbook\u201d It is to be launched by William Kentridge and Sarah Mosoetsa at Welgevallen Community Psychology Clinic, Suidwal Street, Stellenbosch on 6 August [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":13109,"featured_media":12602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3256,160,195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-notices","category-stellenbosch-university"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12605,"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12599\/revisions\/12605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.sun.ac.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}